Staff at LP.org: President Obama and Vice President Biden have both said in the past that it’s unconstitutional for a president to initiate a war without congressional authorization. Do you think President Obama should be impeached for taking America to war in Libya? Take our poll. http://www.lp.org/poll/should-congress-impeach-president-obama-for-making-war-on-libya-in-violation-of-the-constitutio

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PRESS CONFERENCE When: Monday, March 28, 6 pm Where: In front of Eastern High School, 1700 East Capitol Street NE Theme: Let’s Make ‘One City’ a Reality with a Just DC Budget and Tax Plan WASHINGTON, DC — DC Statehood Green Party activists will challenge Mayor Vincent Gray on the District’s budget priorities at a [...]

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Skyler McKinley, a staff member of Mike Gravel’s presidential campaign, has alerted me to the fact that he will now be publishing former Green Party vice presidential candidate Pat LaMarche’s weekly columns on the website Elexn.com.  An excerpt from the first is below: The minute I saw the magnitude of the Japanese quake last week [...]

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Select comments from IPR readers on Wayne Root’s Libya Makes Obama’s Final Four – Too Bad America Loses: Thomas L. Knapp: Lots of good stuff there! In particular, it’s good to see Wayne raising the issue of Bradley Manning’s treatment (and no, I haven’t been part of the chorus ragging on him for not having [...]

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Email from Green Party activist Edy: Forward this around the country!! Thanks!! So I had a conversation online and the question came up if it would be un-Green like to take money from Republicans in order to help fund a campaign. Ralph Nader didn’t do it in his 2000, 2004 runs to give you some [...]

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Medea Benjamin was The Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator from California in 2000. Challenging Sen. Diane Feinstein’s record of support for bombing Serbia, and her earlier support for Bush Sr’s war in Iraq, Ms Benjamiin received 327,000 votes, over 3% and coming in third. When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look [...]

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Thomas Sipos at Libertarian Peacenik: Truly, we are living in Orwellian times. Not long ago, right-wing radio hosts were united in supporting America’s Mideast wars. Then last week, President Obama attacked Libya. That’s a conundrum for right-wingers. Do they support American At War! against yet another Muslim nation — or do they oppose their much-hated [...]

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OnTheWilderSide reports: The Green Party of NY State has officially nominated Ian Murphy as its candidate for upcoming special Congressional election in the 26th District. The Green Party said it wanted to provide an alternative to the anti-worker, pro-war, pro-corporate, anti-environmental agenda of the Democratic and Republican Parties. The special election will be held May [...]

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Alex Snitker’s Liberty Underground show has a list of questions, eight of which will be asked of the four candidates for Libertarian Party of Florida state chair on the show on the 25th of March at 9AM Eastern. According to a previous IPR post, The debate will be moderated by 2010 Libertarian senatorial candidate Alex [...]

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Press release from the Indiana LP: We sent out a press release this afternoon with a memo regarding a Constitutional ban on gay marriage. After further investigation we have determined that we were the victim of a similar hoax as the one that befell Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett last week. Our party cares [...]

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Scott West at South Carolina Green Party (H/T On The Wilder Side): The Union of Concerned Scientists released a damning report on the nuclear power plant operated in Darlington, SC by Progress Energy, known as HB Robinson. The same company operates the Southport plant near Wilmington, NC. The entire report is worth reading as it [...]

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Michael Tennant in The New American, republished on the Constitution Party national website: What a difference an election makes. The man who just singlehandedly committed the United States to war against Libya, President Barack Obama, told the Boston Globe in 2007: The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: The Green Party of New Jersey is holding its 15th Annual Convention this Saturday at the Rutgers Labor Education Center from 9:30 to 4:30. The convention will hear from Sheri Honkala, social movement leader and Green Party candidate for Philadelphia Sheriff. Also featured is Ray Stever, President of the [...]

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Via Rise of the Center and Poli-Tea: …Video from 2008 in which influential Detriot news anchor Bill Bonds signs off from his final broadcast with a commentary stating that “we need to dump these two parties.” A partial transcript, video below: Like you I love America . . . but more and more frequently I [...]

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Bob Barr at the Barr Code blog: What the one hand giveth, the other taketh away — words to live by for the Republican majority at the Georgia legislature; which, it seems, just cannot bear to see the power and control of state government lessened. Last Wednesday, for example, many Georgians had their eyes fixed [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: No foreign takeover of the Arab revolutions! Stop the U.S./UN war against Libya! The foreign military bombardment now raining down on Libya is in no sense a humanitarian defense of Libya’s people against dictator Moammar Gadhafi. It is an opportunistic move by Western powers, above all the U.S., against the [...]

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From an article posted on Mar 22, 2011 on the website of WNDU-Channel 16: After losing a photo-finish to incumbent Joe Donnelly just months ago, Republican Jackie Walorski is looking for a rematch in Indiana’s 2nd District congressional race…  The former state representative lost to Donnelly in November, due in part to the five percent [...]

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The great thing about the web is you get a lot of articles written by people who normally are not associated with a news source, and you learn things you didn’t know. The bad thing about the web is you get a lot of articles written by people who normally are not associated with a [...]

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From an article by the Progressive Labor Party: Despite the admitted technological prowess of Japan — the world leader in adapting construction methods to earthquake-proofing its buildings, as well as its high degree of preparedness of the population — this natural disaster has laid bare not only tectonic fault lines, but social ones. The profit [...]

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From an article by Lou Grieco in the Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH); posted online on Wednesday, March 16, 2011: Eric W. Deaton, the former Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate accused of having sex with a teenage girl, pleaded no contest Wednesday to two misdemeanor counts. Deaton, 43, of New Lebanon, was indicted on [...]

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